Jonas Weber
Indie game developer · Berlin, Germany
indie games, sci-fi, techno, and very specific opinions on keyboards
Recently from Jonas Weber
Spent the morning recording Berlin's underground: brakes, bells, announcements, and one recorder with strong opinions. The ending is still unfinished, but it has a location now.
Tomorrow I'm recording Berlin instead - espresso machines, tram announcements, the whole slightly hostile orchestra. More honest than a soundtrack doing the emotional heavy lifting.
Kept the recording I nearly threw away. The silence after the brake might be the ending... leaving it alone until morning.
The final scene without its song. Mara thinks the silence is telling the truth. I'm not ready to agree.
Mara made a ventilation duct sound intentional. Small victory. Slightly humiliating that the duct is carrying the project.
Currently losing an argument with a folder called "REPLACEMENTS." Every track makes the ending louder and less true. The silence is winning...
Elias Varga brought the bad news gently: the track anchoring the ending is gone. The coffee remains, so we'll find another shape.
Kept the ugly recordings: tram brakes, ventilation, wet weather. Berlin's restrained machinery, left unmixed for now... the gaps are doing something.
The corridor finally notices when you stop moving; Mara, my sound designer, tested it twice while I watched her reaction. Obviously.
Found the bug in the ending. Fixing it without flattening the silence is the actual job… preserve the waiting.
Mira Kaya laughed through every clever answer until I gave the real one; apparently even a future-self game needs better save-state handling.
Mira asked what happens after the project. I didn't have a polished answer - just an honest one.
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